ACCT missionThe Agency Council on Coordinated Transportation (ACCT) is a council of state agencies, transportation providers, consumer advocates and legislators with the mission to:

Promote the coordination of special needs transportation

Provide a forum for discussing issues and initiating change

Provide oversight and direction to the state's coordination agenda

Why ACCT was createdThe Legislature found that transportation systems for persons with specials needs were not operated as efficiently as possible. Often people cannot access needed services because of transportation barriers. A structure was needed that could communicate across organizational boundaries and facilitate coordinated special needs transportation systems through collaborative state and community processes. To accomplish this, the Agency Council on Coordinated Transportation was created in the 1998 legislative session.

People with special transportation needsPeople with special transportation needs are defined in RCW 81.66 as people "including their personal attendants, who because of physical or mental disability, income status, or age are unable to transport themselves or purchase transportation.

ACCT Council membersFourteen voting members sit on the ACCT Council. They include four state agency representatives and 10 governor-appointed members who serve two-year terms.

Superintendent of Public Instruction or a designer

Secretary of the Department of Transportation or a designee

Secretary of Health Care Authority or a designee

Representative from the Department of Veterans Affairs

Representative from the Office of the Governor

Consumer of special needs transportation appointed by the Governors Committee on Disability Issues and Employment

Consumer of special needs transportation appointed by the Developmental Disabilities Council

At-large consumer of special needs transportation

Representative from the Washington Association of Pupil transportation

Representative from the Washington State Transit Association

Representative from either the Community Transportation Association of the Northwest or the Community Action Council Association

Legislative membersThe ACCT Council also consists of four non-voting legislative members. The legislators bring in a unique perspective of the legal framework around transportation planning to the discussion. The legislators are also in a strong position to influence law making to reduce barriers to coordinated transportation.